Yearly Archives: 2010

Chad Schneider

HSA’s and medical devices

09.07.2010 by Chad Schneider

Has the Health Savings Account affected consumer’s spending habits? Is that affecting the design specification for consumer medical devices?

Chad Schneider

Error Term Propagation

08.31.2010 by Chad Schneider

Building products on the assembly line, we need to be sure all of the parts will fit together. But, manufacturing variations may pose problems. Here how to account for them.

Jeremy Savage

Making room in the ID department

08.24.2010 by Jeremy Savage

The Industrial Design Department at Key Tech is proud to announce the addition of Erik Askin. Erik is a talented designer who recently graduated from RISD.

Chad Schneider

Welcome back, Frank

08.10.2010 by Chad Schneider

Frank’s been in rural Uganda for the past two weeks. He went on safari, built a platform for solar panels, dug a deep hole for… well, dug a deep hole, and discovered the excitement of exploring a new culture. We figured he’d be a little homesick, so we left some delicious Jello popsicles for him to come home to.

Chad Schneider

Notice to Staff: You rock! – The Mgmt

08.03.2010 by Chad Schneider

As a service company, our staff is our most important asset. Without them, we’d just have a bunch of lonely computers sitting around hoping to one day become self-aware. As such, we work hard to find great people, and we’ve found some of the greatest.

Chad Schneider

Medical Device Interoperability

07.27.2010 by Chad Schneider

Is it possible to verify and validate the safety and efficacy of medical devices if they could be connected to unknown current and future products? The medical device industry is working with the FDA to work out the safety issues of device interoperability.

Chad Schneider

Frank is WAY out of the office

07.26.2010 by Chad Schneider

Along with other members of The Giving Circle, Frank is now in Uganda to help bring needed resources to an orphanage. Among other things, he’ll be designing and building a small windmill. Of course, that gives us two weeks to setup a few practical jokes for him.

Brian Murphy

Engineering Art

07.20.2010 by Brian Murphy

This past weekend, Baltimore once again hosted the annual Artscape Festival, the self-professed largest free art festival in America. It’s an amazing festival, with 3 days packed full of more art than you can shake a stick at. A few Key Techers, including myself, were in attendance and got to experiment with the [...]

Alexis McKenzie

Zorb’s Away

07.14.2010 by Alexis McKenzie

Ever wonder what it would be like to play inside a human hamster ball or maybe even roll down a hill in one?

Chad Schneider

Resources for tinkerers

07.08.2010 by Chad Schneider

Are you a tinkerer? For those of us that are concerned about how best to crack open a $1,000 MacBook with a critical soda problem yet have the compelling desire to take it apart anyway, there is help.